scaena – Latin noun declension

Noun: scaena
Hyphenation:

Gender: Feminine Declension: First

Nominative

Singular	scaena
Plural	scaenae

Genitive

Singular	scaenae
Plural	scaenārum

Dative

Singular	scaenae
Plural	scaenīs

Accusative

Singular	scaenam
Plural	scaenās

Ablative

Singular	scaenā
Plural	scaenīs

Vocative

Singular	scaena
Plural	scaenae

Sample Sentences

[...] aut Agamemnonius scēnīs agitātus Orestēs
armātam facibus mātrem et serpentibus ātrīs [...]. (… or [like] Agamemnon’s [son] Orestes, tormented onstage [by his dead] mother [who is] armed with torches and black snakes, ….

(A poetic plural reference to theatrical performances of the tragedy.)) [29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 4.471–472]
“Obscaenum” dictum ab “scaena”; eam, ut Graeci, Accius scribit “scena”. (Obscaenum ‘foul’ is said from scaena ‘stage’; this word Accius writes scena, like the Greeks.) [116 BCE – 27 BCE, Marcus Terentius Varro, De lingua Latina 7.96]
[...] tum silvīs scēna coruscīs (Further on [there is] a backdrop with waving woods above; a dark forest overhanging and trembling with shade.) [29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 1.164–165]

Nouns inflected like scaena

scōria, meschīta, sewera, zōnula, ecclēsia, concurrentia, satira, satura, satyra, sagīna, sagēna, sarīsa, salīva, salīna, sampsa, samara, sacēna, salvia, sabīna, sculna, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱeh₃-der.
3. Ancient Greek σκηνή (skēnḗ)bor.
4. Latin scaena
5. From Ancient Greek σκηνή (skēnḗ). Seemingly with a hypercorrective /ae̯/ < /eː/ in reaction to an opposite trend (cf. haedus, saeta > ēdus, sēta). See: Ancient Greek Nouns 'σκηνή'.

Verbs referencing "scaena"

English Nouns scene, Danish Nouns scene, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns scene, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns scene, French Nouns scène, Italian Nouns scena, Catalan Nouns escena, Spanish Nouns escena, German Nouns Szene, Bulgarian Nouns сцена, Russian Nouns сцена, Ukrainian Nouns сцена.